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Ibn Khaldun : an intellectual biography

Title
Ibn Khaldun : an intellectual biography / Robert Irwin.
Author
Irwin, Robert, 1946-
Publication
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]

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Description
xxi, 243 pages; 24 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
Biography.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ibn Khaldun among the ruins -- The game of thrones in fourteenth-century North Africa -- The nomads, their virtues and their place in history -- Underpinning the methodology of the Muqaddima: philosophy, theology and jurisprudence -- Ibn khaldun's sojourn among the Mamluks in Egypt -- The sufi mystic -- Messages from the dark side -- Economics before economics had been invented -- Teaching and writing: what Ibn Khaldun did for a living -- The strange afterlife of the Muqaddima -- Ending up.
Call Number
JFE 18-2459
ISBN
  • 9780691174662
  • 0691174660
LCCN
2017028272
OCLC
990803030
Author
Irwin, Robert, 1946- author.
Title
Ibn Khaldun : an intellectual biography / Robert Irwin.
Publisher
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 18-2459
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